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• Report exposes Pakistani e-waste recycling workers’ plight

  A 6-year-old girl in a remote Pakistani village sits quietly in the family’s kitchen, breathing toxic fumes that drift from across the table where her father is burning a computer circuit board. The scene is one of scores documented by researcher Shakila Umair, whose has compiled the first known evidence of horrifying conditions in the country’s secretive e-waste recycling cottage industry.

• Special Issue "Circular Economy in the COVID-19 Era"

  Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2020.